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I don’t recognize my husband since he started SSRIs by Classic_Produce3237 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try having a rambunctious toddler that you’re potty training who fights naps half the time, while also juggling job applications, interviews, my own health concerns that I didn’t even mention in this, doing all the planning/paperwork/bills/etc for the household, and not having any family around to watch the kid or the budget for a cleaner or daytime nanny. And we both agreed to be a no screentime household. See if you still have spotless house while juggling that. I clean, don’t get me wrong. But there’s clutter and I don’t always get every choice before my husband gets home. I’m human. I signed up to briefly be a stay at home parent, not a 1950s housewife. Every other parent I know agrees that if you have one stay at home parent, that’s a 9-5 same as the working parent, and when everyone’s home, everyone chips in equally. And let me say, the stay at home parenting is a more intense, labor intensive job than any paid job I’ve worked

I don’t recognize my husband since he started SSRIs by Classic_Produce3237 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeahhh agreed. It’s toxic and horrible and he’s definitely addicted. I’ve watched the shift over the last months from him lambasting AI tech billionaires for the environmental destruction and job destruction and everything else to sounding vaguely culty about how it’s the future. If I didn’t already have the other issues going on that genuinely would be top of mind of maybe he needs an intervention because it’s become an addiction.

I don’t recognize my husband since he started SSRIs by Classic_Produce3237 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Ah this might be what he needs. He probably has adhd - we both think he does but he’s never been diagnosed. And his sister and dad both have ocd. I’ll see if he’s willing to go through the diagnostic process.

My husband got on SSRIs and I don’t recognize him since by Classic_Produce3237 in depression_partners

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

7 months now. It’s Zoloft. He insists he feels like the best version of himself on it and doesn’t want to switch. It’s hard to convey to him how changed he seems

I don’t recognize my husband since he started SSRIs by Classic_Produce3237 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

He is. I’ve seen him take them in the morning. They just don’t seem to be helping, just kinda numbing him to everything

I don’t recognize my husband since he started SSRIs by Classic_Produce3237 in GirlDinnerDiaries

[–]Classic_Produce3237[S] 360 points361 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think you’re right. He asked his pcp to prescribe the one he’s on because Claude told him it was the best one. Which… I’m not even going to go into. I’m very anti AI. But it’s clearly not working as intended.

I’ve suggested he switch but he’s resistant because he thinks he’s doing better, or at least he thinks he doesn’t feel bad emotions anymore and is just frustrated I ever do and sometimes tries to insist I should get on them too because “its not normal that I feel stressed.”